Stroom Invest Week 2017

The Invest Week 2017 in numbers:9 Invest artists; 4
Premium artists; 9 curators (8 travelled to The Hague from abroad); 4 Pro Advisory Board members and 4 members of the Stroom team (for studio visits); 4 days of studio visits; 157
studio visits in total; 157 hrs of feedback and reflection; visits to 11 locations in The Hague (suggested by the artists themselves); visits to 7 places for visual art in The Hague; 3 communal dinners; 1 collaboration between Stroom School and Invest
Week; 1 public talk 'What does it mean to make art public?'; 9 interviews with curators on Jegens & Tevens. Some of the feedback of the participating artists and curators in 2017 can be read at the bottom of this page.The PRO Invest
and PRO Premium grants support young artists who recently graduated from the art academy and artists with a busy and active artistic practice respectively. The grant enables artists to develop their work, among other things through their active involvement in The Hague's art world. The annual Stroom Invest Week offers of a program of studio visits, a public evening of talks, visits to places for contemporary art in The Hague and a number of informal meetings. The goal of the Invest program is to stimulate their artistisc practice by reflecting on the work and giving the artists the opportunity to build a national and international network.

Feedback participating curators and artists in 2017"I
wanted to say another enormous thank you. It was really fascinating
learning more about the art scene in The Hague, as well as both
connecting with new artists and curators from the Netherlands and
further afield. I wanted to make a particular thank you for the
generosity of the whole Stroom team - you really made us feel at home so
thank you so much for all your time and energy. I had a brilliant
time."

"That has been quite a week! Thank you so much for
organizing this, I've never felt as much cared for than during this
trip, and I mean it."

"An extremely interesting and useful
program, for a genuine, embedded investment in a local art scene. The
intensity is also fruitful, I believe both for curators and artists, as
they need to be fully attentive and focused communicating about certain
artworks, in a short period of time. It is definitely different to usual
studio visits, as the curators also exchange their various
methodologies of critics on same cases, and in an intimate setting. I
also found the streamlining session with Celine Condorelli, very
interesting."